I thought making people laugh about Weiner was a job for Leno, Jon Stewart, et al. Anyway, Pinkerton is mostly twittering here, in the 'slight silly laugh' sense not the Weiner-sense, because the joke was old before the telling.

It's an etymological oddity that Weiner was undone using a joke-named medium to send unfunny stuff that made him into a laughingstock.

Anthony Weiner has disgraced himself, his family, his party, and the US House of Representatives by behaving as a caddish high school senior, but today this is not enough to remove him from public life, especially since he is a Democrat, so they have to go look for some tiddly "legal" rule he has infracted.

I never feel sorry for any politician who does stupid stuff. Weiner should go. He is a disgrace. He is not entitled to his job. He, like all elected officials, should be held to the highest standards of integrity and honesty.

He should be forced to resign and if he doesn't, he should be publicly shamed by his House colleagues until he does.

This he is only human stuff is the nonsense used to excuse all kinds of things, including crimes.

I agree Weiner resigning would be the right thing. Is that what his constituents think? (And who would replace him?)

We all know that his colleagues in the House don't care, and only appreciate that he's hogging all the Negative Press for US Representatives right now. You know they're all likely saying Phew -- that could have been me.

Taking him at his word, he sent a picture of his junk to a 21 year-old college student, unsolicited. Who cares if it's illegal. He should resign immediately, if only to protect them from any further publicity.

"He is a disgrace. He is not entitled to his job. He, like all elected officials, should be held to the highest standards of integrity and honesty. He should be forced to resign and if he doesn't."

Exactly. He should be expelled from the House, since he refuses to resign.

This man is a pervert and criminal - no different than a flasher of yore. He's guilty of indecent exposure. The fact that he's using social media to lure his victims makes it topical and edgy, but it's the same old story.

Why is this man still in the House of Reprobates? They're not required to let him stay there and bring disrepute on the House. Why are they allowing him to continue to stain the organization. It's bizzare ... unless they really don't think he's doing anything wrong.